Members of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany's far-right political party, have increasingly made statements that reflect what is known as **irredentism**—the idea that a nation should reclaim territories it considers historically or culturally its own, even if those areas are currently part of other countries. These remarks have not come from the party's top leadership and have not led to any formal disciplinary actions. In 2018, the AfD group in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, asked the government about the role of a "cultural representative" for regions such as West Prussia, Posen, Central Poland, Volhynia, and Galicia—areas that were once part of Germany but are now in other European countries. The AfD requested funding for groups representing people expelled from these regions. In 2019, Stephan Protschka, an AfD member of parliament, helped fund a monument in Bytom, Poland, that honored "German soldiers who fell during World War I and World War II, combatants of the self-defense units and free corps, and oppressed and murdered East Germans." In 2024, Alice Weidel, a prominent AfD politician, refused to use the Polish name for the city of Leobschütz, where her family originated, stating she would always use the German name. This year has seen an increase in statements about "lost territories," which refer to areas that some in Germany believe should be part of the country again. In May 2024, the Russian government labeled the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen, a cultural organization for people expelled from East Prussia, as an "undesirable organization." The AfD criticized this decision and asked the German government if it had discussed the matter with Russia. Around the same time, AfD members in Bavaria called for the repeal of the Beneš decrees of 1945, which were legal rulings that allowed for the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II. At the Sudeten German congress, held for the first time in the Czech Republic, AfD members supported the event despite opposition from the Czech far-right party Liberté et démocratie directe (SPD), with which the AfD shares a political group in the European Parliament called Europe des nations souveraines (ESN). In September, during a youth congress in Termeno, Italy, Jean-Pascal Hohm, head of the AfD's youth wing, repeated the slogan: "South Tyrol is not Italy," referring to a region in northern Italy that has a significant German-speaking population. The region of Alsace, which was part of the Holy Roman Empire before being incorporated into France in the 17th century, and was later annexed by Germany in 1871 and again in 1940, has also been the focus of such claims. In May, a young activist from the AfD's youth wing, Marco Eggebrecht, posted on social media with the message: "How I look at you after you said: Alsace-Lorraine must become a German possession again." A few days later, Tomasz Froelich, an AfD member of the European Parliament, criticized France for its "aggressive linguistic assimilation policy" and called out the European Union for its "hypocrisy" in criticizing China's treatment of the Uighur population. On October 3, German Unity Day, a leader of the AfD's youth wing, Luca Maurice Strauf, described the reunification of Germany as a "stage victory" in a post that included images of Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg, and Austria, but not Silesia, Pomerania, or East Prussia. He later deleted the post.